Deaths on 15 May
2000s
Robert Walls
2025
Australian rules footballer and coach (1950–2025)
Kamla Beniwal
2024
Indian politician (1927–2024)
Frank Curry
2022
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1950–2022)
Kay Mellor
2022
English actress and director (1951–2022)
Oliver Gillie
2021
British journalist and scientist (1937–2021)
Fred Willard
2020
American actor and comedian (1933–2020)
Herbert R. Axelrod
2017
American tropical fish expert, a publisher of pet books, and an entrepreneur
Elisabeth Bing
2015
20th and 21st-century American physical therapist
Jackie Brookner
2015
Flora MacNeil
2015
Scottish Gaelic Traditional singer (1928–2015)
Garo Yepremian
2015
Armenian-Cypriot American football player (1944–2015)
Jean-Luc Dehaene
2014
Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999
Norifumi Suzuki
2014
Japanese film director
Henrique Rosa
2013
President of Guinea-Bissau (1946–2013)
Carlos Fuentes
2012
Mexican writer (1928–2012)
Arno Lustiger
2012
German historian and author of Jewish origin (1924–2012)
Zakaria Mohieddin
2012
Prime Minister of Egypt from 1965 to 1966
Besian Idrizaj
2010
Austrian footballer (1987–2010)
Loris Kessel
2010
Swiss racing driver (1950–2010)
Bud Tingwell
2009
Australian actor (1923–2009)
Wayman Tisdale
2009
American basketball player (1964–2009)
Tommy Burns (footballer)
2008
Scottish footballer and manager
Alexander Courage
2008
American composer (1919–2008)
Will Elder
2008
American illustrator (1921–2008)
Jerry Falwell
2007
American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist (1933–2007)
Nazar Abdul Zahra
2006
Iraqi footballer (1961–2006)
June Carter Cash
2003
American singer (1929–2003)
1900s
Earl Manigault
1998
American street basketball player (1944–1998)
Naim Talu
1998
15th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1973 to 1974
Charles B. Fulton
1996
American judge
Eric Porter
1995
British actor (1928–1995)
Gilbert Roland
1994
American actor (1905–1994)
Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
1993
Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat
Andreas Floer
1991
German mathematician
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
1991
Malian writer, historian and ethnologist
Fritz Riess
1991
German racing driver (1922–1991)
Johnny Green
1989
American songwriter (1908–1989)
Luc Lacourcière
1989
Canadian ethnographer and writer (1910–1989)
Elio de Angelis
1986
Italian racing driver (1958–1986)
Theodore H. White
1986
American historian and author (1915–1986)
Jackie Curtis
1985
American actor, singer, and playwright
Francis Schaeffer
1984
American theologian (1912-1984)
Gordon Smiley
1982
American racing driver (1946–1982)
Gordon Prange
1980
American historian
Robert Menzies
1978
Prime Minister of Australia (1939–1941; 1949–1966)
Tyrone Guthrie
1971
English actor and director (1900–1971)
Joe Malone
1969
Canadian ice hockey player
Edward Hopper
1967
American painter and printmaker (1882–1967)
Italo Mus
1967
Italian painter
Pio Pion
1965
Italian engineer (1887–1965)
Vladko Maček
1964
Croatian politician (1879–1964)
John Aglionby (bishop)
1963
Keith Andrews (racing driver)
1957
American racing driver (1920–1957)
Dick Irvin
1957
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (1892–1957)
Austin Osman Spare
1956
English artist (1886–1956)
Harry J. Capehart
1955
American lawyer, politician, and businessperson (1881–1955)
William March
1954
United States Marine, novelist, short story writer
Edward J. Flanagan
1948
Irish-born American priest (1886–1948)
Kenneth J. Alford
1945
English composer (1881–1945)
Charles Williams (British writer)
1945
British writer, theologian, and literary critic (1886-1945)
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
1937
British politician (1864–1937)
Kazimir Malevich
1935
Russian artist and painter (1879–1935)
Umegatani Tōtarō I
1928
Japanese sumo wrestler
Joseph James Fletcher
1926
Australian biologist
Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant
1924
French politician (1852 - 1924)
Hasan Tahsin
1919
Turkish-Jewish war hero
Ida Freund
1914
Austrian-British chemist
1800s
Emily Dickinson
1886
American poet (1830–1886)
Gottfried Semper
1879
German architect and theorist (1803–1879)
Braulio Carrillo Colina
1845
Head of State of Costa Rica
Before 1800
Alban Butler
1773
English Catholic priest (1710–1773)
Ephraim Chambers
1740
English writer and encyclopaedist (c. 1680–1740)
John Hale (minister)
1700
American Puritan minister
Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet
1699
Marie Champmeslé
1698
French actress
Hendrick Avercamp
1634
Dutch painter (c. 1585–1634)
Henry Bromley (died 1615)
1615
English landowner and politician
Giovanni Croce
1609
Italian composer
Niwa Nagahide
1585
Japanese samurai (1535–1585)
Karl Knutsson
1470
King of Sweden and Norway (1408/1409–1470)
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset
1464
15th-century English noble
Domenico Veneziano
1461
Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1410–1461)
Peter II, Count of Savoy
1268
European noble
Mleh, Prince of Armenia
1175
Lord of Cilicia
Nur al-Din Zengi
1174
Emir of Aleppo (1146–1174) and Damascus (1154–1174)
Yuri Dolgorukiy
1157
Prince of Rostov and Suzdal (died 1157)
Emperor Go-Ichijō
1036
Emperor of Japan from 1016 to 1036
Byrhthelm (bishop of Wells)
973
Archbishop of Canterbury in 959
Li Cunxu
926
Emperor of Later Tang from 923 to 926
Hatto I
913
Pope Marinus I
884
Head of the Catholic Church from 882 to 884
Hilary of Galeata
558
Christian saint (476–558)
Valentinian II
392
Roman emperor from 375 to 392